Re: GNOME strongly supports open standards including OpenDocument Format

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> I think this is a good idea; however, I'm not sure GNOME developers
> agree with this as a group.
>
> For example, people still feel that by default GNOME should ship with
> stuff that makes it easy to encode to mp3 or rip CD's for their hardware
> devices that do not support open formats; or that GNOME should play
> DVD's.
>
> Maybe a check with the developer base is needed first ? Putting up such
> a statement as the Foundation and then having a lot of developers
> disagree with it in practice seems a bad situation to be in.

Who's going to be against encouraging open standards? For what possible
reason? That's like being against cute puppies.

Murray Cumming
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